Education, Teaching & Professional Experience

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland (March, 2018)

Thesis Title: Cognitive radio adaptive rendezvous protocols to establish network services for a disaster response (PDF DOWNLOAD)

  • Advisors: Professor Cormac J. Sreenan and Professor kenneth N. Brown

MS in Computer Science and Engineering (2008 - 2010)

  • Hanyang University, South Korea

  • Thesis Title: An Efficient Trajectory Design for a Wireless Sensor Network

  • Advisors: Professor Sunghyun Cho and Professor Sung-Han Park

B.E. in Computer Systems Engineering (2001 - 2005)

  • Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan


Courses and Workshops Attended:

1. TGI-NO-12 : "Information Centric Networking Technologies & Applications" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, Ireland, 2015.

2. TGI-NO-11 "Towards NFV-based Mobile Video Delivery : Challenges & Opportunities" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, University College Cork, Ireland, 2015.

3. TGI-SO-9 "Privacy and Online Social Networks" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, University College Cork, Ireland, 2014.

4. TGI-NO-6 "Network Embedded Systems" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, University College Cork, Ireland, 2014.

5. TGI-NO-11 "Software De ned Networking" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, University College Cork, Ireland, 2014.

6. TGI-NO-4 "Cognitive Radio" under The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative Program, University College Cork, Ireland, 2013.

7. CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Administrator) Training Course from CTTC Karachi, Pakistan, November 2007.

8. CCNP (Cisco certified Network Professional) Training Course from CTTC Karachi, Pakistan, June 2006.

9. MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) Training Course from CTTC Karachi, Pakistan, February 2006.

Teaching experience:

  1. Assistant Lecturer (September 2020 to date)

Atlantic Technological University, Ireland

  1. Lab Instructor (2013/14/15/16)

University College Cork, Ireland

CS-2505: Network Computing Lab

  1. Lecturer (2010-2012)

COMSATS University, Lahore, Pakistan

Professional experience:

1. ITOCHU Corp., Karachi, Pakistan (2008)

Network Administrator

2. BIZTEK Institute of Technology, Karachi, Pakistan (2006 - 2008)

Network Administrator

3. S.G. Fibre Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan (2005 - 2006)

Jr. Network Engineer

Current modules


2022-2023

Undergraduate:

  • Secure Wireless and Software Defined Networking (Year 4)

  • Secure Systems Administration (Year 2)

  • Cybersecurity (Year 2)

  • Automation (Year 2)

Postgraduate:

  • Information Security Management I (MS)

  • Information Security Management II (MS)

  • Cloud Data Storage and Management (PGDip in Emerging Technologies)

Previous modules


Undergraduate modules:

  1. Data Communication Networks

  2. Digital Communications

  3. Cybersecurity

  4. Secure Infrastructure

  5. Secure Systems Administration

  6. Automation

  7. Secure Communications and Infrastructure

  8. Services Management

  9. Network Fundamentals

  10. Electrical circuits


Postgraduate modules:

  1. IT systems for Healthcare

  2. Cloud Data Storage and Management

  3. Information Security Management I

  4. Information Security Management II